SCIENCE & RESEARCH

Oxford vaccine shows protection against COVID-19 in monkeys: Study

6:43 pm July 30, 2020

London: A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by the University of Oxford in the UK elicits an immune response and reduces the viral load in monkeys exposed to SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Thursday. The researchers from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US and the Oxford University found that […]

NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life

6:27 pm July 30, 2020

Cape Canaveral : The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analysed for evidence of ancient life. NASA’s Perseverance rode a mighty Atlas V rocket into […]

Experts’ opinion on can we get coronavirus twice

2:31 pm July 30, 2020

Can you get the coronavirus twice? Scientists don’t know for sure yet, but they believe it’s unlikely. Health experts think people who had COVID-19 will have some immunity against a repeat infection. But they don’t know how much protection or how long it would last. There have been reports of people testing positive for the […]

2nd COVID-19 vaccine authorized in US ships out

Moderna’s vaccine protects monkeys against COVID-19, study finds

8:52 pm July 29, 2020

Washington: US biotechnology company Moderna’s experimental vaccine to prevent COVID-19 induced robust immune response and rapidly controlled the novel coronavirus in the upper and lower airways of monkeys exposed to SARS-CoV-2, according to a study published on Tuesday. The candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, was co-developed by scientists at Moderna and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious […]

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US: COVID-19 vaccine put to final test in thousands of volunteers

6:31 pm July 27, 2020

New York: The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government — one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race. There’s still no guarantee that the experimental vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of […]